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This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha...
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A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
BEN JONSON ![]()
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
...
BEN JONSON ![]()
But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON ![]()
If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
...
BEN JONSON ![]()
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON ![]()
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
BEN JONSON ![]()
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON ![]()
He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON ![]()
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to...
BEN JONSON ![]()
They that know no evil will suspect none.
BEN JONSON ![]()
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON ![]()
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON ![]()
All concord's born of contraries.
BEN JONSON ![]()
In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON ![]()
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
BEN JONSON ![]()
I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON ![]()
So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue,
And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce
L...
BEN JONSON ![]()
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A brute without a single redeeming point.
BEN JONSON ![]()
O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
BEN JONSON ![]()
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which ...
BEN JONSON ![]()
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is ...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
BEN JONSON ![]()
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Cut
Men's throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Where it concerns himself,
Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSON ![]()
The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
As some soft chime had stroked the air;
And though the ...
BEN JONSON ![]()
It strikes! one, two,
Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,
Thy pulse hath bea...
BEN JONSON ![]()
And I had lent my watch last night to one
That dines to-day at the sheriff's.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Small Latin, and less Greek.
BEN JONSON ![]()
It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom
They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Yet the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor
and other tackle.
BEN JONSON ![]()
--They write here one Cornelius--Son
Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel
To swim the hav...
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I do honour the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Her treading would not bend a blade of grass,
Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk!
BEN JONSON ![]()
And so to tread
As if the wind, not she, did walk;
Nor prest a flower, nor bow'd a stalk.
BEN JONSON ![]()
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON ![]()
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON ![]()
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSON ![]()
See and to be seen.
BEN JONSON ![]()
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to
Shakespeare, that in his writing (w...
BEN JONSON ![]()
For a good poet's made, as well as born,
And such wast thou! Look how the father's face
Lives...
BEN JONSON ![]()
He was not of an age, but for all time!
And all the Muses still were in their prime,
When, lik...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Follow a shadow, it still flies you,
Seem to fly, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she den...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JONSON ![]()
I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
. . . .
Poems are made by foo...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,...
BEN JONSON ![]()
The thirst that from the soul doth rise,
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove's nectar...
BEN JONSON ![]()
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSON ![]()
Have you seen but a bright lily grow, / Before rude hands have touched it? / Have you marked but the...
BEN JONSON ![]()
This is the very womb and bed of enormity.
BEN JONSON ![]()
I have betrayed myself with my own tongue; The case is altered
BEN JONSON ![]()
Reader, look / Not on his picture, but his book.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Sweet swan of Avon!
BEN JONSON ![]()
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSON ![]()
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times
BEN JONSON ![]()
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
BEN JONSON ![]()
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JONSON ![]()
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise
man speaks.
BEN JONSON ![]()
To the old, long life and treasure;
To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Nature herself was proud of his designs,
And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!
Which we...
BEN JONSON ![]()
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship.
The reason is, the brave beast i...
BEN JONSON ![]()
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his
government is groping.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Princes that would their people should do well
Must at themselves begin, as at the head;
For m...
BEN JONSON ![]()
There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house
BEN JONSON ![]()
Follow a shadow, it still flies you,
Seem to fly it, it will pursue.
So court a mistress, sh...
BEN JONSON ![]()
For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSON ![]()
The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSON ![]()
The master of art or giver of wit,
Their belly.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Yet shall you have to rectify your palate,
An olive, capers, or some better salad
Ushering the...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.
BEN JONSON ![]()
The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSON ![]()
'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to be seen,
...
BEN JONSON ![]()
The gods
Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,
And must be yours, that guilty men e...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument,
He'll bray you in a mortar.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast,
Still to be powder'd, all p...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Follow a shadow, it still flies you,Seem to fly it, it will pursue.So court a mistress, she denies y...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, us...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Good morning to the day: and next, my gold! - / Open the shrine that I may see my saint.
BEN JONSON ![]()
If he were / To be made honest by an act of parliament, / I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON ![]()
The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Wherein the graver had a strife / With Nature to out-do the life.
BEN JONSON ![]()
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears; / Yet slower yet, O faintly, gentle springs.
BEN JONSON ![]()
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Art has an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon?
BEN JONSON ![]()
Underneath this stone doth lie / As much beauty as could die.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will no...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment
BEN JONSON ![]()
Fortune, that favors fools
BEN JONSON ![]()
Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat
BEN JONSON ![]()
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity
BEN JONSON ![]()
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times
BEN JONSON ![]()
And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSON ![]()
All concord's born of contraries
BEN JONSON ![]()
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON ![]()
She is Venus when she smiles; / But she's Juno when she walks, / And Minerva when she talks.
BEN JONSON ![]()
I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.
BEN JONSON ![]()
A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSON ![]()
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, / Now the sun is laid to sleep, / Seated in thy silver chair, /...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
BEN JONSON ![]()
He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Talking is the disease of age.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
BEN JONSON ![]()
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
BEN JONSON ![]()
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you ...
BEN JONSON ![]()
Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rus...
BEN JONSON ![]()
It is not growing like a tree / In bulk, doth make men better be.
BEN JONSON In the last five years, really since Republicans took control, there seems to be more of this going ...
BILL JONSON Florida means land of flowers, not land of ugly.
BILL JONSON I sure like taking money from Opus.
BILL JONSON This is not a giant step forward to a business owner. It would be more of an indication of support f...
BILL JONSON The billboard folks are masters at delay.
BILL JONSON This puts finality on two cases that have been pending for a long time. Ten years seems like a long ...
BILL JONSON I think some of (the developments) would be quite nice if there was some space around them. It's alm...
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Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON ![]()
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge...
BEN VEREEN ![]()
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha...
BEN MENDELSOHN I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved ...
BEN MENDELSOHN The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f...
BEN MENDELSOHN My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo...
BEN MENDELSOHN I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin...
BEN MENDELSOHN Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
BEN MENDELSOHN Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus...
BEN MENDELSOHN I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind...
BEN MENDELSOHN The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of...
BEN MENDELSOHN I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ...
BEN MENDELSOHN I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou...
BEN MENDELSOHN The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f...
BEN MENDELSOHN Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
BEN MENDELSOHN I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
BEN MENDELSOHN The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live...
BEN MENDELSOHN Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
BEN MENDELSOHN I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl...
BEN MENDELSOHN You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind...
BEN MENDELSOHN You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke...
BEN MENDELSOHN As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
BEN MENDELSOHN I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
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We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI ![]()
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO ![]()
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH ![]()
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN ![]()
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI ![]()
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON ![]()
Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON ![]()
I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER ![]()
Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO ![]()
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW ![]()
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR ![]()
Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS ![]()
Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO ![]()
President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO ![]()
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO ![]()
Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO ![]()
The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO ![]()
Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO 
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,... 
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'... 
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool. 
I don't need music, lobster or wineWhenever your eyes look into mine;The things I long for are simpl... 
One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'... 
I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marma... 
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser... 
Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no... 
Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif... 
And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come t... 
There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but... 
Never be ashamed,’ he said. ‘Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wi... 
I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I hav... 
Then this immensive cup
I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'o... 
I sleep on my stomach with my head under a bunch of pillows so if someone wants to come in and try t... 
We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when ... 
Hmmm... cooking with wine? I usually drink wine while cooking... I do a good braised short ribs with... 
The TV is often on in our house, but I really only keep up with three shows: 'American Idol,'... 
A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I've been kissing for nearly two deca... 
I'll drink water. Sometimes tomato juice, which I like. Sometimes orange juice, which I like. I&... 
I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window ... 
I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella sa... 
Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person. 
So the gods bless me,
When all our offices have been oppressed
With riotous feeders, when our ... 
It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agre... 
Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... 
To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together becau... 
I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigare... 
If I don't manage to negotiate with the European Union, something I wish, then I will ask the Fr... 
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should... 
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will ... 
I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing r... 
Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ... 
Heaven is thine and so it's mine. 
My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge. It reads, 'I'm With H... 
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, o... 
You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ... 
It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss m... 
Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I'll stop the whole ... 
By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and lea... 
Drink with me, my dear, said Mr. Weller. "Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss yo... 
If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in ... 
I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I d... 
I've dated girls and I always wait for that one right time to kiss. I don't kiss on the firs... 
A DEEP-SWORN VOW
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Ye... 
I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are g... 
Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I g... 
And looks commercing with the skies, / Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. 
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to... 
The thirst that from the soul doth rise,
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove's nectar... 
I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'T... 
Kiss me,” she said urgently.
Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and... 
I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the... 
Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look... 
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names... 
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge... 
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ... 
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st... 
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. 
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ... 
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare... 
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ... 
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee... 
I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b... 
Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. 
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin... 
Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid... 
Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...